Issue Section: Don't Get Me Started
I Don’t Brake for the Environment
Pretty pretty Nissan Leaf with Tenessee plates Talk about “song-in-you-head. As we approached the 2018 Nissan Leaf the salesman points out the manufacturer’s Tennessee plates. John …
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Don’t Get Me Started: A Tale of Two Trolls
Strange things you see at the Coffee Garden. After reading a murder of mysteries by Agatha Christie, Graham Greene and Raymond Chandler recently, I’ve taken a sleuthsome turn mysel …
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Don’t Get Me Started: July 2018
The heat is on. Ned: How’s the cop business, Oscar? Oscar: Real good. Always starts hopping in weather like this. When it gets this hot, people try to kill each other. — Body Heat …
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Don’t Get Me Started: This is your brain on bad science
Salt Lake City to be test dummy for 5G-and-beyond technology. The next, next big thing in telecommunications will be prototyped in Salt Lake City over the next five years. With fun …
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Don’t Get Me Started: Upper Class Twitters
In a recent court case in Manhattan, seven “followers” of Donald Trump’s Twitter account sued the President on First Amendment grounds to prevent him from blocking them from his fe …
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Don’t Get Me Started: Assault on Society
In the autumn of 1969, just as soon as my basic training company had learned to disassemble, clean, re-assemble and fire the U.S. Army’s M-14 battle rifle, the Army decided to acce …
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Don’t Get Me Started: March 2018
No sympathy for the devil. “What’s confusing you is the nature of my game.” — Sympathy for the Devil, Rolling Stones. In January Donald Trump tried to live up to his campaign promi …
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CATALYST test drives a Chevy Bolt EV
An electric car can work with your solar panels for an overall lower carbon footprint. Perhaps the most important part of owning and managing a solar system of your own (SSOYO) is …
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Don’t Get Me Started: Lap Dancers
You say sugar daddy, I say sugar daddies. —by John deJong In the ever more interesting race for Utah’s governorship, Gary Herbert has labeled Republican primary opponent Jonathan J …
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Don’t Get Me Started
Playing dirty with coal. —by John deJong You can forgive Utah’s citizens if we feel like we’ve been dry-gulched by the Coal Brothers and their hired guns. As Brian Maffly revealed …
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Don’t Get Me Started
The Altar of Intention. —by John deJong The best part of the best party in the universe isn’t about partying at all. It’s the Temple burn at Burning Man. Each year for the last fif …
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Don’t Get Me Started
Making way for the next big thing: The ugly side of land-banking and “economic development.”—by John deJong Some of the more interesting views of downtown Salt Lake City are from t …
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Utah’s health(don’t)care system. —by John deJong The other day a friend asked me whether I thought Greg Hughes, the speaker of the Utah House of Representatives, was politically mo …
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Pope Francis and St. Francis of Assisi: “On the care of our common home.” —by John deJong Full disclosure: My last two years of high school were spent at the now-defunct St. Franci …
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Sixty-five years ago, the American Southwest was at the beginning of a uranium boom that left lasting scars on the landscape and the population—men lost to deadly jobs in the uran …
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The new Creative Lab at Salt Lake's City Library provides the resources for creating and editing photography, videos and music as well as a 3D computer, sewing machines and more! Free training courses are also available.
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The downtown library has created a dedicated lab of equipment and software for groups and individuals to access who otherwise wouldn’t have had the...